The Usual Advice

When I woke up this morning and saw what happened, and saw that it happened at a Hookah bar and near Frankfurt, I narrowed it down to two possibilities:

(1) Clan or mafia type violence

(2) White nutbar, probably lone wolf/accelerationist

I highly doubted religion of peace, because just shooting up a hookah bar isn’t their M.O.

The world now knows which one it is.

And as usual, my standard fare advice stands: Ignore his manifesto. Because I know it’s floating around out there in a thousand different places. And certainly keep his name out of your mouth if you happen to find out.

More thinking out loud: I don’t know if he was a patron at that hookah bar, or if he just picked it because Kurds happen to be patrons. But if he was a patron, it means he was into hookah. Which means weed, which means psychosis. So many mass shooters are big into weed. Of course we all know that the root of “assassin” is “hashish” and that hashish is just turbocharged weed.

T. R., the Hanau suspect, was a banker for most of his working career. So I doubt he belonged to any political groups. If I’m right, it means, just like Halle back in October, this is a word that German political culture is starting to learn based on a concept that Americans have been more familiar with for longer: Einzelgängerterrorismus. Lit: “Loner terrorism,” Cont.: “Lone wolf terrorism”

Breaking: The German Public Prosecutor General, one Peter Frank, member of the CSU, (The Bavaria-only equivalent of the CDU), had some sort of business or professional relationship with the Hanau nutbar. (Remember, he was a Frankfurt banker.)

A lot of details are both vague and missing.

But I will say that the only way this will matter is if their relationship meant that Frank refused to prosecute T. R. when he really should have. Otherwise, it’s just an irrelevant observation, and no grounds for Frank to resign.

T. R.’s father, an economist, belongs to the Green Party, and ran for a local office on the Green Party.

So what it means is that the only two parties that T. R. had any links to, and they’re not really links, are the CSU and the Greens. But guess which one Official Germany is trying to drag through the mud.

In the past few days, along with some minor stuff that doesn’t matter, we learned some major news about the Hanau nutbar: That he was the accountant to two hookah bars in the Frankfurt area. We don’t know if either one was the one he shot up.